Joe Grows a Family

Alright.  As you all may know, my first novel The Closeted Life of Claude Hartel is being released tomorrow (July 23rd).  Ahhh!  I am going a little crazy and trying to make sure I've got everything prepared, ready, and polished for an awesome premiere.  But I thought I'd give one real quick update on everything. So, our frozen eggs from our donor in California are pretty much packaged up and being sent out for delivery at this moment.  They'll arrive in Madison on July 30th.  Yippee!  Wow.  Shiznit's got real, that's for sure.  It only cost about $20,000!  Eek! Of course, like always, we have the worst luck ever.  Our fertility clinic closes down every year for the first two weeks of August so their staff can go on vacation and get some relaxation time.  That's like the day after our eggs arrive.  So we'll have to wait until after that break for our doctors to begin the process of fertilizing those eggs.  ...

We'll be using her frozen eggs! So this'll be a quick one guys.  Summer's calling my name and I've got things to do.  So, here we go... If you remember from my last post, I was juggling a few balls (I believe I also promised I'd stop saying "balls").  Because our doctor requested our egg donor from California to stay in Madison for her entire 18-day transfer, our egg donor, going by the alias Erica, was unable to fulfill those requirements and we were in need, once again, of eggs.  There were a few possibilities and the one we carefully have chosen is a new egg donor.  We think it's a good option and our doctors and everyone at The Surrogacy Center agrees. Look like Adan at all? Her alias is Julie.  We're using her frozen eggs which is actually against our doctor's orders.  Our doctor, an amazing one at The Wisconsin Fertility Clinic, prefers to work with fresh eggs because their chances are often more successful.  But she accept...